{"id":6566,"date":"2010-12-22T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2010-12-22T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T15:37:01","slug":"demint-vows-to-reverse-fcc-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/12\/22\/demint-vows-to-reverse-fcc-power-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMint Vows to Reverse FCC Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"

DeMint vows to reverse FCC’s ‘Internet takeover’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC, says Federal Communications Commission should be renamed the “Fabricating a Crisis Commission,” following a vote by the panel’s three Democrats to approve proposed rules that amount to a hostile takeover of the Internet by a government agency acting illegally.<\/p>\n

The proposal – misleadingly described by proponents as an attempt to insure “net neutrality” by guaranteeing equal access to the Internet – was introduced a year ago by Julius Genachowski, President Obama’s appointee as FCC chairman.<\/p>\n

A federal court has ruled that the commission has no authority to regulate the Internet, and a bipartisan group of senators and representatives warned Genechowski not to attempt to impose a regulatory regime on the Internet earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The move’s legality was even questioned by FCC Commissioner Michael Copp, one of the Democrats who voted today with Genachowski, saying he considered voting against the proposal because it lacks a sufficiently defensible legal basis to survive a court challenge promised by major Internet Service Providers like Verizon, Microsoft, and AT & T.<\/p>\n

But legal challenges by industry are likely to be much less of a problem for the Genachowski-led takeover than efforts in Congress to stop the FCC in its tracks. <\/p>\n

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